Since 1981, the University of Alaska Anchorage and the Anchorage Daily News have sponsored an annual creative writing contest that has drawn participants of every age in every part of Alaska. A selection of winners has been published each summer in the Anchorage Daily News. LitSite Alaska is pleased to present a listing of contest winners since 1981. In addition, selected winning entries from the 1996 through 2007 and 2010 contests are also included.

Q & A with Ron Spatz, Founder of Creative Writing Contest
In 1981, as a young professor new to the English department at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Ron Spatz -- who has since gone on to found Alaska Quarterly Review and LitSite Alaska, the online literary Web site (www.litsite.org) -- had an idea: a creative writing contest that would be open to writers around the state.